Improvement in hat-racks for chairs



, or other article.

UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIGE.

CHRISTIAN P. F. HOLTZ, OF HCBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, AND HEINRICH KOENNECKE, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAT-RACKS FOR CHAIRS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,439, dated June 6, 1876 application led December 17, 1875.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be .it known that we, CHRISTIAN P. F. HOLTZ, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, and HEINRICH KOENNECKE, of New York city, New York, have invented a new and Improved Chair, of which the following is a specification:

Figures 1 and 2 'are perspective views of our improved chair, showing modifications in its construction.

This invention has for its object to produce a chair with a rigid support for a hat, coat, or other article beneath the seat.

The invention consists in suspending from the seat or rungs of a chair, or attaching rigidly to the legs thereof, beneath the seat, a woven or other shelf, upon which the occu pant of the chair may deposit his coat, hat, In publie halls, theaters, &c., this arrangement will be particularly useful.

In the drawing, the letter A represents a suitable chair. B is a shelf, made of wire, rattan, or other suitable material. It is snspended by rods a a directly from the seat b of the chair, or from' the rungs d thereof, or directly and rigidly attached to said rungs, or to the legs e c of the chair, at such a distance below the seat b that a coat or hat, or other article, can be introduced between said seat and shelf, and placed upon said shelf. Such coat, hat, or other article may be introduced from the front, side, or back, and placed upon the shelf. y We are aware that chairs with pivoted shelves have been known before our invention, as in the Patents No. 110,197, of December 20, 1870, and No. 155,107, and do not, therefore, claim, broadly, a chair having a shelf beneath a seat; but we have contrived to produce a chair having all the advantages ot' the said patented chair, but far less expensive and much lighter than the same.

We claim as our invention- A hat-support formed ot' wire, in the manner shown, and having wire rods secured thereto, said rods being hooked at the ends, to

adapt them to be fastened to the frame of a chair, beneath the seat, as and for the purpose set forth.

C. P. F. HOLTZ. H. KOENNEGKE. Witnesses:

ERNEST C. WEBB, HENRY F. RICHTER. 

